Anna Akhmatova
1889 – 1966 · Ukraine · Literature
Requiem memorised by friends because writing it down was fatal.
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- Svetlana Alexievich
1948 · Literature, History
Requiem's chorus of bereaved women is the form Alexievich made a method.
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